Synonyms of the word

nail

• n. The thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes on humans and some other animals.
• n. The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
• n. The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
• n. A spike-shaped metal fastener used for joining wood or similar materials. The nail is generally driven…
• n. A round pedestal on which merchants once carried out their business, such as the four nails outside The…
• n. An archaic English unit of length equivalent to 1/20th of an ell or 1/16th of a yard (2.25 inches or 5…
• v. (transitive) To fix (an object) to another object using a nail.
• v. (intransitive) To drive a nail.
• v. (transitive) To stud or boss with nails, or as if with nails.
• v. (slang) To catch.
• v. (transitive, slang) To expose as a sham.
• v. (transitive, slang) To accomplish (a task) completely and successfully.
• v. (transitive, slang) To hit (a target) effectively with some weapon.
• v. (transitive, slang) Of a male, to engage in sexual intercourse with.
• v. To spike, as a cannon.

ace

• n. (card games, dice games) A single point or spot on a playing card or die.
• n. (card games, dice games) A card or die face so marked.
• n. A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot.
• n. (tennis) A serve won without the opponent hitting the ball.
• n. (sports) A single point won by a stroke, as in handball, rackets, etc.
• n. (US) (baseball) The best pitcher on the team.
• n. (US) (baseball, dated, 19th century) A run.
• n. (US) (golf) A hole in one.
• n. An expert at something.
• n. A military aircraft pilot who is credited with shooting down many enemy aircraft, typically five or more.
• n. (US) A perfect score on a school exam.
• v. (US) To pass (a test, interviews etc.) perfectly.
• v. (tennis) To win a point by an ace.
• v. (golf) To make an ace (hole in one).
• adj. (Britain, slang) Excellent.
• adj. (slang) Asexual. (not experiencing sexual attraction).
• n. (slang) A person who is asexual.

apprehend

• v. (transitive, archaic) To take or seize; to take hold of.
• v. (transitive) To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest.
• v. (transitive) To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant…
• v. (transitive) To anticipate; especially, to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
• v. (intransitive) To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
• v. (intransitive) To be apprehensive; to fear.

arrest

• n. A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
• n. The condition of being stopped, standstill.
• n. (law) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
• n. A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
• n. A device to physically arrest motion.
• n. (nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
• n. (obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
• n. (farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To stop the motion of (a person or animal).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To stay, remain.
• v. (transitive) To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).
• v. (transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
• v. (transitive) To catch the attention of.

attach

• v. (obsolete, law) To arrest, seize.
• v. (transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
• v. (intransitive) To adhere; to be attached.
• v. To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
• v. To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral…
• v. To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
• v. (obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.

blast

• n. A violent gust of wind.
• n. A forcible stream of air from an orifice, for example from a bellows, the mouth, etc.
• n. A hit from a pipe.
• n. The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace.
• n. The exhaust steam from an engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an…
• n. An explosion, especially for the purpose of destroying a mass of rock, etc.
• n. An explosive charge for blasting.
• n. A loud, sudden sound.
• n. A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.
• n. (figuratively, informal) A good time; an enjoyable moment.
• n. (marketing) A promotional message sent to an entire mailing list.
• n. A flatulent disease of sheep.
• n. (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) An algorithm for comparing primary biological sequence information.
• v. (transitive) To confound by a loud blast or din.
• v. (intransitive) To make a loud noise.
• v. (transitive) To shatter, as if by an explosion.
• v. (transitive) To open up a hole in, usually by means of a sudden and imprecise method (such as an explosion).
• v. (transitive) To curse; to damn.
• v. (transitive) (sci-fi) To shoot, especially with an energy weapon (as opposed to one which fires projectiles).
• v. (soccer) To shoot; kick the ball in hope of scoring a goal.
• v. To criticize or reprimand severely; to verbally discipline or punish.
• v. (transitive) To blight or wither.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be blighted or withered.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To blow, for example on a trumpet.
• interj. Blast it; damn it.
• n. (cytology) An immature or undifferentiated cell (e.g., lymphoblast, myeloblast).

boom

• v. To make a loud, resonant sound.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
• v. (transitive) To make something boom.
• v. (slang, US, obsolete) To publicly praise.
• v. To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
• n. A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
• n. One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
• interj. used to suggest the sound of an explosion.
• interj. used to suggest something happening suddenly and unexpectedly.
• n. (nautical) A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats…
• n. A movable pole used to support a microphone or camera.
• n. A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
• n. (electronics) The longest element of a Yagi antenna, on which the other, smaller ones are transversally…
• n. A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment…
• n. A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
• n. The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
• v. To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
• n. (economics, business) A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
• v. (intransitive) To flourish, grow, or progress.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to advance rapidly in price.

clutch

• v. To seize, as though with claws.
• v. To grip or grasp tightly.
• n. The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
• n. (by extension) A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
• n. A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used between engine and gearbox in a car.
• n. The pedal in a car that disengages power transmission.
• n. Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
• n. A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
• n. (US) An important or critical situation.
• adj. (US, Canada) Performing or tending to perform well in difficult, high-pressure situations.
• n. A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs.
• n. A group or bunch (of people or things).

collar

• n. Anything that encircles the neck.
• n. A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.
• n. (technology) Any encircling device or structure.
• n. (in compounds) Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
• n. (botany) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem.
• n. A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
• n. (nautical) An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope…
• n. (slang) An arrest.
• v. (transitive) To grab or seize by the collar or neck.
• v. (transitive) To place a collar on, to fit with one.
• v. (transitive) To seize, capture or detain.
• v. (transitive) To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
• v. (law enforcement, transitive) To arrest.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To bind in conversation.
• v. (transitive) To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.
• v. (BDSM) To bind a submissive to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.

complete

• v. (transitive) To finish; to make done; to reach the end.
• v. (transitive) To make whole or entire.
• adj. With all parts included; with nothing missing; full.
• adj. Finished; ended; concluded; completed.
• adj. Generic intensifier.
• adj. (analysis, Of a metric space) in which every Cauchy sequence converges.
• adj. (algebra, Of a lattice) in which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
• adj. (mathematics, Of a category) in which all small limits exist.
• adj. (logic, of a proof system of a formal system) With respect to a given semantics, that any well-formed…
• adj. (computing theory) With respect to a complexity class, used of a problem that is in that class and such…

cop

• n. (obsolete) A spider.
• v. (transitive, formerly dialect, now informal) to obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to…
• v. (transitive) to (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment…
• v. (transitive, trainspotting, slang) to see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
• v. (transitive) to steal.
• v. (transitive) to adopt.
• v. (intransitive, usually with "to", slang) to admit, especially to a crime.
• n. (slang, law enforcement) A police officer or prison guard.
• n. (crafts) The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
• n. (obsolete) The top, summit, especially of a hill.
• n. (obsolete) The crown (of the head); also the head itself.
• n. A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
• n. (architecture, military) A merlon.

fastener

• n. something or someone that fastens.
• n. mechanically, any device that fastens; especially, a collective term for items such as screws, nuts, washers,…

fastening

• v. present participle of fasten.
• n. a hook or similar restraint used to fasten things together.

fixing

• n. The act of subverting (fixing) a vote.
• n. (Britain, usually in the plural) Something to aid attachment during construction (screws, wall plugs,…
• n. See fixings.
• v. present participle of fix.
• v. (Southern US, slang, with infinitive) Going; preparing; ready. Only used in fixing to.

hit

• v. (heading, physical) To strike.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
• v. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
• v. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
• v. (transitive) To affect negatively.
• v. (heading, games) To make a play.
• v. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
• n. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches…
• n. (music) A recorded song that receives widespread recognition and success, mainly through radio airplay.
• n. An attack on a location, person or people.
• n. (computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine.
• n. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
• n. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
• n. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s…
• n. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
• n. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
• n. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
• n. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
• adj. Designating of a popular song.
• pron. (dialectal) It.

holdfast

• n. Something to or by which an object can be securely fastened.
• n. (zoology) A root-like structure that anchors aquatic sessile organisms, such as seaweed, other sessile…
• n. (archaic, medicine) Actinomycosis.

locate

• v. (transitive) To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
• v. (transitive) To find out where something is located.
• v. (transitive) To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of (Note: the designation may be…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To place oneself; to take up one's residence; to settle.

nab

• v. (transitive) To seize, arrest or take into custody a criminal or fugitive.
• v. (transitive) To grab or snatch something.
• n. The summit of an eminence.
• n. The cock of a gunlock.
• n. (locksmithing) The keeper, or box into which the lock is shot.

pass

• v. (heading) Physical movement.
• v. (heading) To change in state or status, to advance.
• v. (heading) To move through time.
• v. (heading) To be accepted.
• v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
• v. (heading) To do or be better.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
• n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise…
• n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
• n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
• n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
• n. An attempt.
• n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
• n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
• n. A sexual advance.
• n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
• n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into…
• n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
• n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit…
• n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
• n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
• n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
• n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
• n. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the…
• n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
• n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
• n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

peg

• n. A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.
• n. Measurement between the pegs: after killing an animal hunters used the distance between a peg near the…
• n. A protrusion used to hang things on.
• n. (figuratively) A support; a reason; a pretext.
• n. (cribbage) A peg moved on a crib board to keep score.
• n. (finance) A fixed exchange rate, where a currency's value is matched to the value of another currency…
• n. (Britain) A small quantity of a strong alcoholic beverage.
• n. A place formally allotted for fishing.
• n. (colloquial, dated) A leg or foot.
• n. One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
• n. A step; a degree.
• n. Short for clothes peg.
• v. To fasten using a peg.
• v. To affix or pin.
• v. To fix a value or price.
• v. To narrow the cuff openings of a pair of pants so that the legs take on a peg shape.
• v. To throw.
• v. To indicate or ascribe an attribute to. (Assumed to originate from the use of pegs or pins as markers…
• v. (cribbage) To move one's pegs to indicate points scored; to score with a peg.
• v. (slang) To reach or exceed the maximum value on a scale or gauge.
• v. (slang, typically in heterosexual contexts) To engage in anal sex by penetrating one's male partner with…

pinpoint

• n. The point of a pin.
• adj. Extremely precise or specific, especially regarding location.
• v. To identify or locate precisely or with great accuracy.

play

• v. (intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose…
• v. (ergative) To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
• v. (intransitive) To take part in amorous activity; to make love, fornicate; to have sex.
• v. (transitive) To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
• v. (heading, transitive, intransitive) To produce music or theatre.
• v. (heading) To behave in a particular way.
• v. (intransitive) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion;…
• v. (intransitive) To move gaily; to disport.
• v. (transitive) To put in action or motion.
• v. (transitive) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
• v. (transitive) To manipulate or deceive someone.
• n. (uncountable, formerly countable) Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
• n. (uncountable) Similar activity, in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
• n. (uncountable, ethology) "Repeated, incompletely functional behavior differing from more serious versions…
• n. The conduct, or course of a game.
• n. (countable) An individual's performance in a sport or game.
• n. (countable) (turn-based games) An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
• n. (countable) A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters…
• n. (countable) A theatrical performance featuring actors.
• n. (countable) A major move by a business.
• n. (countable) A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other…
• n. (uncountable) The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely.
• n. (uncountable, informal) Sexual role-playing.
• n. (countable) A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.

prehend

• v. (obsolete) To lay hold of; to seize.

seize

• v. (transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
• v. (transitive) To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
• v. (transitive) To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
• v. (transitive) To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To fasten, fix.
• v. (intransitive) To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
• v. (intransitive) To have a seizure.
• v. (intransitive) To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
• v. (Britain, intransitive) To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.

smash

• n. The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
• n. (Britain, colloquial) A traffic accident.
• n. (colloquial, entertainment) Something very successful.
• n. (tennis) A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
• n. (colloquial, archaic) A bankruptcy.
• v. To break (something brittle) violently.
• v. (intransitive) To be destroyed by being smashed.
• v. To hit extremely hard.
• v. (figuratively) To ruin completely and suddenly.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success.
• v. (US) To deform through continuous pressure.
• v. (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.

succeed

• v. To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of.
• v. To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue…
• v. (obsolete, rare) To fall heir to; to inherit.
• v. To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.
• v. To support; to prosper; to promote.
• v. To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed…
• v. To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.
• v. To go under cover.

unguis

• n. (zoology) The nail, claw, talon, or hoof of a finger, toe, or other appendage.
• n. One of the terminal hooks on the foot of an insect.
• n. (botany) The slender base of a petal in some flowers; a claw; an ungula.

win

• n. (Scotland) Pleasure; joy; delight.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To conquer, defeat.
• v. (intransitive) To reach some destination despite difficulties (generally with a preposition or locative…
• v. (transitive) To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To gain (a prize) by succeeding in competition or contest.
• v. (transitive) To obtain (someone) by wooing.
• v. (intransitive) To achieve victory.
• v. (transitive) To obtain (something desired).
• v. (transitive) To cause a victory for someone.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To come to by toil or effort; to reach; to overtake.
• v. (transitive, mining) To extract (ore, coal, etc.).
• n. gain; profit; income.
• n. wealth; owndom; goods.
• n. an individual victory (opposite of a loss).
• n. (slang) a feat, an (extraordinary) achievement (opposite of a fail).